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Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.

OBD-II was implemented to monitor emissions, but EVs don't have tailpipes.

Elon Musk has said and done a lot of weird and outrageous things during his tenure as the owner of Twitter (now X), but we may have just seen the weirdest and most outrageous.

Businesses want in on generative AI and are willing to do anything to ride the wave.

Solo inventor says he's not out to replace gears, just offer an alternative.

The vulnerabilities allowed public access to restricted, sealed and confidential court filings using only a web browser...

“We’re here, we’re back. It’s working.”

Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.

Pilot plant in Nevada uses tech from fracking to generate power in arid landscape.

TikTok owner ByteDance may be poised to slash much of its games business, including Nuverse, the unit that publishes "Marvel Snap."

AI-driven voice cloning can make things far too easy for scammers – I know because I’ve tested it so that you don’t have to learn about the risks the hard way.

Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between “Effective Altruism” (doomers) and “Effective Accelerationism” (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of...

@deep: In this article, I address the topic of content generation by artificial intelligence and its impact on the publishing market and, more broadly, on the quality of information available to readers. I present concerns about the quality and authenticity of AI-generated content in the context of disinformation and potential...

Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub's VP of Developer Relations:...

Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

Description DO NOT CLOSE THIS ISSUE BECAUSE YOU THINK IT DOEN'T MEET THE CRITERIA OF A VALID ISSUE! THERE ARE SOME VERY SALIENT ISSUES BEING RAISED IN THIS ISSUE..... I have reported issues as far ...

The platform cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on X and plans to devote its time to Mastodon.

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....

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YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Kangaroo4 has curated a list of the top Amazon deals for the extended Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales event. The highlights include savings of up to 80% on items such as Samsung’s QLED TV…